[your name here]: Life Writing (2003)

Cover photograph & Design: Lisa Allen

[your name here]: Life Writing. Edited by Jack Ross. Introduction by Mary Paul. ISBN 0-473-09551-3. Massey University: School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2003. x + 140 pp.

Contents:

Introduction (Mary Paul)

[your name here] (Jack Ross)

People

Poem for Dad (Kirstin Douglass)
Father (Jennie Allan)
Father (Harley Hern)
A Lamp in My Life (Julie Rah)
Bedtime (Kath Harris)
Bedtime (Jennifer Marsters)
Chips (Lisa Allen)

Places

Nostalgia (Janine Howe)
Death of a Tree Stump (Fiona Lambert)
Changes (Evan Lazarus)
Morning (Jacqué Mandeno)
The Range (Kay Paltridge)
Silence (Antonia Smith)
The Drums (Alice Whale)

Rules

Before the Law (Vicky Adin)
My Mice (Harley Hern)
School (Jacqué Mandeno)
Scent of the Sun (Victor Poliakov)
The End Justifies the Means (Noeline Sadler)
The Cure (Barb Smith)
Ham and Mustard (Sarah Thrasyvoulou)

Rituals

Race Day (Barb Smith)
The Basketball Game (Donna Banicevich Gera)
The Barbecue (Carol Buchanan)
The Anniversary (Barbara Grigor)
Seven (Melanie Shaw)
The Swimming Lesson (Rowan McCormick)
Lea & Perrins (Deanne Taylor)

Stories

Footsoldier (Lisa Allen)
Circumstances of Love & Lust (Phoebe Bellows)
from Black Sand (Barbara Grigor)
Just Deserts (Noeline Sadler)
The Barbecue (Nina Soma)
Fragments of My Life (Alice Whale)

Interview

Roger Thomas Ward Smith (Peter Linnell)

Letter

Three Good Things (Rowan McCormick)

Notes on Contributors

Available:

Leanne Menzies
School Adminstrator
School of Social and Cultural Studies
Massey University
Private Bay 102 904
North Shore Mail Centre
Auckland

RRP: $NZ10 (+ $2 postage & packing)

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Edited: Books

[photograph: Jennifer Little]

Contents:

1. Jan Kemp. Dancing Heart: New and Selected Poems 1968–2024. Edited by Jack Ross. ISBN 978-3-00-083163-8. Kronberg im Taunus, Germany: Tranzlit, 2025. 172 pp.





2. Mike Johnson. Selected Poems 1977-2022. Edited with an Introduction by Jack Ross. ISBN 978-1-991083-00-5. 99% Press. Auckland: Lasavia Publishing Ltd., 2023. 206 pp.







3. Leicester Kyle. Letters to a Psychiatrist. Afterword by Jack Ross. ISBN 978-0-473-41327-9. Paper Table Novellas, 1. Auckland: Paper Table, 2017. iv + 87 pp.







4. Leicester Kyle. The Millerton Sequences. Edited by Jack Ross. Poem by David Howard. ISBN 978-0-473-18880-1. Pokeno, Auckland: Atuanui Press, 2014. 140 pp.





5. Leicester Kyle. Koroneho: Joyful News Out Of The New Found World. Edited with an Introduction by Jack Ross. Preface by Ian St George. ISBN 978-0-9876604-0-4. Auckland: The Leicester Kyle Literary Estate / Wellington: The Colenso Society, 2011. ii + 110 pp.





6. 11 Views of Auckland. Edited by Jack Ross & Grant Duncan. Preface by Jack Ross. Social and Cultural Studies, 10. ISSN 1175-7132. Albany: Massey University, 2010. ii + 210 pp.





7. New New Zealand Poets in Performance. Edited by Jack Ross. Poems selected by Jack Ross and Jan Kemp. ISBN 978 1 86940 4093. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2008. Text + 2 CDs. xiv + 146 pp.





8. Home & Away: Life Writing 3. ISBN 978-0-473-13539-3. Massey University: School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2008. ii + 156 pp.





9. Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance. Edited by Jack Ross and Jan Kemp. ISBN 978 1 86940 395 9. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007. Text + 2 CDs. xiv + 162 pp.





10. Myth of the 21st Century: An Anthology of New Fiction. Edited by Tina Shaw & Jack Ross. ISBN 0-7900-1098-4. Auckland: Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd, 2006. 137 pp.





11. Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance. Edited by Jack Ross. Poems selected by Jack Ross and Jan Kemp. ISBN 1-86940-367-3. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006. Text + 2 CDs. xiv + 146 pp.





12. Where Will Massey Take You? Life Writing 2. ISBN 0-473-09551-3. Massey University: School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2005. viii + 155 pp.





13. Kendrick Smithyman. Campana to Montale: Versions from Italian. Edited with an Introduction by Jack Ross. ISBN 0-476-00382-2. Auckland: The Writers Group, 2004. [ii] + 190 pp.
    
    
    
    
    • Kendrick Smithyman. Campana to Montale: Versions from Italian. 2004. Edited by Jack Ross & Marco Sonzogni. Introduction by Marco Sonzogni. Essay by Jack Ross. ISBN-13: 978-88-7536-264-5. Transference Series. Ed. Erminia Passannanti. Novi Ligure: Edizioni Joker, 2010. 244 pp.




14. Golden Weather: North Shore Writers Past and Present. Poems edited by Jack Ross / Prose edited by Graeme Lay. ISBN 0-908561-96-2. Auckland: Cape Catley, 2004. 244 pp.





15. [your name here]: Life Writing. ISBN 0-473-09551-3. Massey University: School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2003. x + 140 pp.

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